Finding the Best Body Contouring Options
There are many procedures to choose from, so finding the best body contouring options for your body can sometimes feel overwhelming. Maybe it’s difficult to know when you’ll need a tummy tuck or liposuction. Or maybe you want to know if a breast lift is considered body contouring and whether that even matters.
How to Find the Best Body Contouring Options for You
Broadly defined, body contouring procedures are those that can help give your body the shape you want. For many, that means various procedures designed to help make the body look more slender, but for other patients the best body contouring procedures are those that preserve and accentuate curves.
Finding the right body contouring option for you will depend most of all on what you are attempting to treat and how you want your desired final results look. There is no shortage of options, so let’s take a look at the body contouring options available today! If you want to know more about any of these procedures, don’t hesitate to contact our offices near Houston, TX, to schedule a consultation with Dr. Polsen!
Options for Eliminating Unwanted Fat
One of the most common body contouring desires is the elimination or mitigation of unwanted fat. When you’re young, getting rid of fat is relatively easy: a moderate change in your diet or exercise (coupled with your youthful metabolism) usually does the trick. But as you age, your body tends to be a little less cooperative.
Stubborn areas of fat can remain despite the most vigorous dieting and exercise regimen. Eliminating those areas of fat can help patients feel as though they’ve finally completed a long weight loss journey, achieving at last the body they’ve always wanted.
Mitigation of fat is usually accomplished with a liposuction procedure. Modern liposuction places a strong emphasis on contouring your results so they appear to be as natural as possible. In other words, Dr. Polsen will work to ensure that your liposuction results blend in seamlessly with the rest of your body (to the extent possible).
Liposuction can be performed in the following areas:
- Around the abdomen or the belly (this is the most common liposuction request)
- Inner or outer thighs and the upper leg
- The arms
- The back (this is another area commonly requested)
- Face and neck (often in conjunction)
If there’s a stubborn area of fat on your body, liposuction may be the optimal way to achieve the overall contours you want. If you’re interested in liposuction, contact our offices to schedule a consultation with Dr. Polsen!
What if the Problem Isn’t Fat?
When it comes to getting the overall body shape you want, sometimes stubborn fat isn’t the problem. Many patients actually suffer from having too much skin. As you age, your skin loses elasticity, so when it stretches (due to weight loss, pregnancy, or gravity-assisted aging), it doesn’t exactly bounce back.
This excess skin can look little different from fat, and therefore can cause patients to feel self-conscious or lose a bit of self-esteem. Achieving your desired final look, then, is usually a matter of tummy tuck or body lift procedures.
During a tummy tuck procedure, excess skin is removed from the abdomen. In addition, your abdominal muscles are given a little bit of additional structure in order to help you appear more slender and youthful. But the abdomen isn’t the only place your body can get a “lift”:
- You can remove excess skin from the arms with an arm lift procedure
- A facelift essentially functions the same way, eliminating unwanted excess skin that ages the face
- Removing excess skin from the lower body is usually referred to as a “body lift,” and is common among patients who have recently lost a significant amount of weight
These types of lifts are a common way to help patients achieve the overall body image that they’re after. This is especially true for patients who have put in a lot of time and work trying to lose weight. There’s no amount of diet and exercise that can eliminate excess skin–only surgery is capable of that! If you want to know more about tummy tuck or body lift procedures, contact Dr. Polsen to start the process today!
Liposuction and Tummy Tuck Together
It’s quite common for patients to undergo both liposuction and tummy tuck (or body lift) procedures in order to fully achieve their body transformations. This is because patients who undergo any type of liposuction are, in effect, creating a small amount of excess skin at the site of the lipo procedure.
Sometimes this small amount of excess skin is manageable using non surgical means. In other cases, surgeons plan to mitigate any excess skin that might develop via simultaneous surgery. In other words, to ensure you get as close to your final results as possible, Undergoing both procedures at once means you likely won’t have to worry about the development of excess skin in the future–at least, not in the same location.
For some patients, finding the best body contouring options means putting a couple of them together. Combining procedures in such a way is actually pretty common, so if you’re wondering what procedure (or procedures) will be best for you, contact us today!
